2022 Pwnie Award Winners
Best Cryptographic Attack
Hertzbleed: Turning Power Side-Channel Attacks Into Remote Timing Attacks on x86
Best Desktop Bug
Architecturally Leaking Data from the Microarchitecture
Best Mobile Bug
Best Privilege Escalation Bug
Mystique in the House: The Droid Vulnerability Chain That Owns All Your Userspace
Best Remote Code Execution Bug
Windows RPC Runtime Remote Code Execution (CVE-2022-26809)
Best Song
Epic Achievement
Yuki Chen’s Windows Server-Side RCE Bugs
Lamest Vendor Response
Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation
Most Epic Fail
HackerOne Employee Caught Stealing Vulnerability Reports for Personal Gains
Most Innovative Research
Custom Processing Unit: Tracing and Patching Intel Atom Microcode